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If your chosen book is NONFICTION: ...such as a memoir or historical account – keep in mind the following aspects, as non-fiction may differ significantly from literary fiction in several important ways: Structure of the text How did the writer organize the text? • sequence or time order • similar and/or contrasting ideas • description of concrete or abstract details • patterns of cause and effect • how does the writer use these structures to communicate? • how do structural elements help make ideas clear? Author’s viewpoint What is the author’s opinion, conclusion, and overall attitude toward the topic? • diction: an author’s word choice creates tone, which in turn creates the mood of a text. An author’s attitude toward a topic is revealed in this way. • evidence: what types of examples or anecdotes does the author use, and why? Does the author show multiple perspectives? is there a bias evident in the text? • fact vs. opinion: what is presented as fact, and what is opinion, and how do you know?

Separated by decades, Josef, a Jew living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a girl trying to escape unrest in 1994 Cuba; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence, embark on journeys in search of refuge.

In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper&nbsp;ship&nbsp;with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the&nbsp;ship&nbsp;for its wealth or rescue the girl.

After hacking into the&nbsp;Warcross&nbsp;Championships' opening game to track illegal betting, bounty hunter Emika Chen is asked by the game's creator to go undercover to investigate a security problem, and she uncovers a sinister plot.

In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only&nbsp;way&nbsp;to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomesa scythe must kill the one who doesn't.

An aristocratic girl who is a member of a warmongering and enslaving empire purchases a slave, an act that sets in motion a rebellion that might overthrow her world as well as her heart.

Faeries and&nbsp;humans live apart, separated by a&nbsp;wall and&nbsp;generations-old hostility, and&nbsp;resourceful Feyre struggles to keep her poor family alive. She kills a&nbsp;wolf one winter day, and&nbsp;a&nbsp;monstrous creature arrives at her home, demanding her life as punishment.

A group of kids trapped together in a chain superstore build a refuge for themselves, as a series of disasters, from a monster hailstorm to a chemical weapons spill, seems to be tearing the world apart.

All 16-year-old Darrow knows is mining for helium-3 deep below the surface of Mars, believing, as do all those of the Red&nbsp;clan, that they are the first peoples of Mars who sacrifice their lives to create a habitable planet for the inhabitants of an overpopulated dying Earth

Now on the cusp of manhood, Finnikin, who was a child when the royal family of Lumatere was brutally murdered and replaced by an imposter, reluctantly joins forces with an enigmatic young novice and fellow-exile, who claims that her dark dreams will lead them to a surviving royal child and a way to regain the throne of Lumatere.

The doors connecting the worlds have been closed for years, with only rare magic users such as Kell able to travel between.

A seventeen-year-old boy finds that every time he closes his eyes, he is drawn into the body of a mute servant girl from another world--a world that is growing increasingly more dangerous, and where many things are not as they seem

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.

When the anonymous teen creator of a wildly popular webcomic is tempted by a school newcomer to pursue real-world relationships, everything she has worked so hard to build crumbles in the wake of their highly publicized romance.

Not long after Hank, Ana, and Milo Vasquez's father leaves, an alien named Luz arrives and uses them to satisfy his curiosity, then leaves them forever changed.

In&nbsp;a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on&nbsp;the&nbsp;day&nbsp;they&nbsp;will&nbsp;die, teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using&nbsp;the&nbsp;Last Friend app and are faced with&nbsp;the&nbsp;challenge of living a lifetime on their&nbsp;End&nbsp;Day.

When his father is sent to jail after being falsely convicted&nbsp;of&nbsp;a crime in 1999 Bolivia, teen Francisco is forced to choose between living with his father in prison and relocating to&nbsp;the&nbsp;mountains, where people have lived for centuries without education or modern conveniences.

Charlie and John are both gunning for the same scholarship to a private arts high school. For this coveted spot, they must compete in a fashion competition--and only one can win.

Welles was working on the 104th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center when it was struck by a plane on the morning of September 11, 2001. Physically unharmed and able to escape, altruistic Welles chose instead to assist an estimated 18 people to safety using his junior firefighter training.

"Three misfit girls come together to avenge the rape of a girl none of them knew and in the process start a movement that transforms the lives of everyone around them"

In&nbsp;the&nbsp;months before her one-way&nbsp;trip to Mars, Adri Ortiz is sent to Wichita to live with a elderly cousin and finds herself fixating on where she came from and&nbsp;the&nbsp;stories of two women who lived more than a hundred years earlier.

When a faked&nbsp;sex&nbsp;tape goes viral, Kyla Cheng must delve into a world of hackers in an attempt to take it off&nbsp;the&nbsp;Internet and figure out who is trying to damage her reputation.

A group of high school students grow in understanding of each other's challenges and forge unexpected connections as they prepare for a boys vs. girls poetry slam. Includes author's note about foster home care.

The Assessment Your first major writing task will be an essay that demonstrates your knowledge of the text, your understanding of literary elements, and your ability to use textual evidence to connect the elements to the central concept or a major theme in the novel. An essay on the concepts and themes of a book is a synthesis of your reflections on elements of the story and an analysis of their relationship to a deeper and broader meaning. The analysis shows how the concepts are illustrated in the text and why the themes matter, both in story and in the real world. Your analysis might examine why characters make specific choices, how the book's setting has an impact on themes, how symbols are used, what conflicts exist in the text, or how those conflicts are resolved. Overall, your response will draw attention to the critical aspects of the text and reveal to the reader how you use evidence to interpret and draw conclusions.

The tomboy daughter of a preacher rebels against conventional beliefs about the proper role she should conform to and ends up getting into trouble with her posse of friends before a love triangle complicates her relationships and makes her aware of her gender identity.

Daniel, a Chinese-American teen, must grapple with his plans for&nbsp;the&nbsp;future, his feelings for his best friend Harry, and his discovery of a family secret that could shatter everything.

Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parents world of college&nbsp;and&nbsp;marrying a suitable Muslim boy&nbsp;and&nbsp;her dream world of film school&nbsp;and&nbsp;dating her classmate, Phil, when a terrorist attack changes her life forever.

When jobs typically done by humans are replaced with alien technology, Adam's parents have no money for food, clean water, or medicine, forcing Adam and his girlfriend Chloe to get creative.

Feeling incomplete as an adopted child after placing her own baby up for adoption, teen Grace tracks down her biological siblings and finds herself struggling with the dynamics of being a middle child between an embittered older brother and an outspoken younger sister.

Marcos Rivas yearns for love, a working cell phone, and maybe a pair of sneakers that aren’t falling apart. But more than anything, Marcos wants to get out of Maesta, his hood, away from his indifferent mom and her abusive boyfriend—which seems impossible.

Elena, the first scientifically confirmed virgin birth, acquires the ability to heal by touch at age sixteen, the same year that people start disappearing in beams of light, causing her to wonder if she is bringing about the Apocalypse.

A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding the truth.

A heartbreaking dual narrative follows Adam, a gay teenager with homophobic parents, and the ghost of a classmate murdered by her meth-addicted boyfriend, over the course of one, defining day.

A new friend and their YouTube cooking channel help fourteen-year-old Sebastian move on from accidentally shooting his infant sister ten years earlier.

Below is a guide to literary elements to help you to uncover a major theme in your book. Take notes or use the optional organizer provided. Be sure to cite specific evidence from your novel.

Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls.

Bookish 15-year-old Janna Yusufis an Arab American hijabi teen struggling with friendships, crushes, and reconciling her place in and loyalty to her Muslim community. After she is sexually assaulted by “the Monster,” the seemingly devout cousin of her best friend, she must find the strength to stand up for herself.

Justyce McAllister is captain of the Braselton Prep debate team and an honor roll student. But after being profiled by the police and ending up in handcuffs, Justyce turns to the legacy of Dr. King, hoping King’s teachings can help him navigate today’s world.

After leaving her life behind to go to college in New York, Marin must face the truth about the tragedy that happened in the final weeks of summer when her friend Mabel comes to visit.

After witnessing her friend's death at&nbsp;the&nbsp;hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when&nbsp;the&nbsp;police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened&nbsp;the&nbsp;night Kahlil died.

Raised in a white supremacist compound where he was honored for his acts of violence before killing his own father, 14-year-old Nate is placed in the custody of his uncle and starts over with a new identity before forging an unexpected bond with a kind boy he was taught to hate.

In the aftermath of a war between gods and men, a hero, a librarian, and a girl must battle the fantastical elements of a mysterious city stripped of its name.

The rules: don't cry, don't snitch...DO get revenge. A sixty second elevator ride is a long way down for Will to decide if he should use the gun shoved into the back of his jeans to avenge his brother's murder.

Kiko Himura knows the key to escaping her narcissistic mother is getting into her dream art school. When her rejection letter and abusive uncle both arrive at her home at nearly the same time, Kiko flees with her childhood crush to California.

An agender teen falls asleep on an Oakland city bus. A black teen sets their skirt on fire. Two young lives, forever entwined because of proximity in a moment, eventually spark an entire community’s shift towards restorative justice.

The bond between brothers was never stronger. Drawing on their lifelong correspondence, Heiligman plumbs their journey from an ascetic upbringing in a Protestant parsonage to the auction houses of Europe.

Meet Robert Capo and Gerda Taro, young refugees and fearless pioneers of photojournalism, who documented the savagery of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. In capturing a struggle against fascism that presaged World War II, their body of work reflects the evolution of photography as a journalistic medium. 

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Polly, an 11-year-old girl with “gunfighter eyes,” her teddy bear, and her estranged father suddenly find themselves struggling for survival in a world ruled by gangs. Fast-paced and thrilling, this will get even reluctant readers' hearts racing.&nbsp;

In this dark fable, twins Jillian and Jacqueline venture to a dangerous world where they must choose one of two paths. As they discover their true selves, they find that love and adventure are among the most hazardous things.&nbsp;

Stuck on a distant planet with an exploratory crew, a&nbsp;Security Robot&nbsp;kills time watching soaps. After a group of scientists is killed, the robot (now calling itself “Murderbot”) must figure out how to save its crew from a similar fate.&nbsp;

Two friends on a Grand Tour of 18th-century Europe stumble across a magical artifact that leads them from Paris to Venice in a dangerous manhunt shaped by pirates, highwaymen and their growing attraction to one another.

From 1965 through the present, an Indian American family adjusts to life in New York City, alternately fending off and welcoming challenges to their own traditions.

With prom and graduation around the corner, senior Leah Burke struggles when her&nbsp;group&nbsp;of friends start fighting.

Pulitzer Prize winner. Marie-Laure and Werner meeting in the walled French coastal city of Saint-Malo during World War II, profoundly upends their understanding of the world around them and their places in it.

funny/character driven/coming of age: When a shout-out by a famed vlogger causes her own web series to go viral, Tash embarks on an ambitious project marked by her love of Tolstoy, adoring fans, high pressure, a cyber-flirtation with a fellow award nominee and her secret asexual orientation.

A candid memoir about the author's struggles with food, weight, and self-image. Discusses a traumatic event in the author's past and the influence that violence had on her present in relation to her obsession with food and becoming "visible."

Follows the true story of Dita Kraus, a fourteen-year-old girl from Prague who after being sent to Auschwitz is chosen to protect the eight volumes prisoners have smuggled past the guards.

Best friends August and Jack struggle to cope as one spirals into madness.

After&nbsp;her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.

When Mary, a teenager living in a group home, becomes pregnant, authorities take another look at the crime for which Mary was convicted when she was nine years old.

Carver Briggs already feels responsible when his three&nbsp;best friends are killed in a car accident after he sent a “Where are you guys?” text message to the driver. Now it seems as though the whole town wants him to be prosecuted.

This brutally honest novel will have readers struggling to move through the often gruesome initiation of kidnapped children into the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).

Slavery comes to a halt when the dead on Civil War battlefields begin to rise and eat their compatriots.

After her mother's death, Willie must protect her younger siblings from the flesh-eating creatures that surround her town and is forced to enter the dangerous desert to find her father when he steals from the most powerful man in town.

Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda,&nbsp;disappeared&nbsp;from the streets of Juarez, and ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city.

Told through flashbacks, best friends Jule and Imogen are orphaned outcasts who will do almost anything to attain a happy, wealthy life.

"When Marvin Johnson's twin brother, Tyler, is shot and killed by a police officer, Marvin must fight injustice to learn the true meaning of freedom"

An unsparing tale set in the grimly violent world of the human and drug trade on the U.S.-Mexican border finds Arturo enduring a hardscrabble existence before helping his friend, who has stolen money from the narcos to smuggle his girlfriend and baby into the U.S.

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Recommendations based on a book you liked!

When we get back to school in September you'll participate in a writing assessment, about ONE book you read over the summer. In the assessment, you'll be expected to demonstrate your ability to address theme, supported by quotes and evidence, relevant and critical to the text. If your chosen book is FICTION: Find the Central Concept The central concept of a text is the primary focus, pattern, purpose, or thought process guiding a text or section of text. This is built and revealed by both plot and theme. A book’s central concept is the proposed suggestion, message, moral, lesson, or philosophical stance taken away from a text. This can be on either the reader’s or the author’s part – one can take away things (or miss) the author did not necessarily intend. Find the Theme A theme is a philosophical idea found behind the motives, actions, emotions, images, symbols, and language of a text. Themes can be found in either what the reader thinks a text means or what the text itself seems to suggest. A theme may be a universal idea that is a reflection of human experience suggested by the text. A prevailing theme can also be identified by examining the characters' strengths, weaknesses, values, thoughts, and actions, or by the images and events that recur through a text.

OK. First things first... You read what you want to read!

You're in High School...right?! Quality decision making is what you do!

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Take Notes Concepts and themes may not be explicitly stated, so your notes are crucial in identifying and evaluating the book's central theme. When considering characters, think not only of the characterization, but also of the tone, setting, conflict, plot, imagery, figurative language, and symbolism as devices or tools that help ensure that the reader "gets" the meaning that the writer intended him or her to learn. Literary themes are implied through the aforementioned elements of the text, so close reading and taking notes as you read help you identify and gather the book's clues and evidence for your essay. Close Read Reading “closely” means reading slowly and actively, paying attention to language, making thoughtful observations, and tracking your interpretations of the messages the author delivers. You should note your questions and observations in your journal along with supporting evidence. Underlining interesting passages, jotting down questions, marking moments when characters have to make important or difficult decisions, and recording instances of symbolism and foreshadowing will deepen your interpretation and understanding of theme within your book while also building a toolbox of material to draw from when you write your essay.

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Preface ................................................................. 3 Recommendations .............................................. 13 Requirements ..................................................... 24

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